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Awards, News & Best of Booklists

Tiya Miles wins Schomburg Center’s 2022 Harriet Tubman Prize for All That She Carried (Penguin Random House; LJ starred review). NYPL has details. 

ElectricLit shares its favorite poetry collections of 2022. 

CrimeReads has the best YA mysteries of 2022. 

Jezebel lists the best celebrity memoirs of 2022.

BookRiot has the 10 best horror books of 2022.

Tor shares “Notable Young Adult Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror of 2022.”

The Independent predicts big books of 2023. 

PW names its 2022 People of the Year, including librarians on the front lines of a new wave of book-banning attempts. 

Pearson will acquire Personnel Decisions Research Institutes, Publishers Lunch reports. 

The NY Post and FoxNews update coverage of Kirk Cameron’s campaign to provide library storytimes for his new children’s book.  

Reviews

NYT reviews Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins by Aidan Levy (Hachette; LJ starred review): “I worry that there’s something wrong with that—that a narrative-hungry, impatient culture prefers to hear about jazz rather than listen to it. But this book, a brimming and organized compendium, something to keep returning to like Rollins’s records, is not part of that problem.”

Autostraddle reviews How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler (Little, Brown): “Every essay finds its own distinct rhythm to moving between the creatures and Imbler’s personal narrative. This is indeed queer science, a playful challenging of what science writing can be.”

BookMarks compiles “The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2022.”

Briefly Noted

Margareta Magnusson, author of the forthcoming The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly (Scribner), writes  “Why the Holidays Are the Ideal Time To Talk About Death Cleaning With Your Loved Ones” for Time. 

Slate interviews Gautam Mukunda about his book Picking Presidents: How To Make the Most Consequential Decision in the World (Univ. of California).

ElectricLit talks with Hafizah Augustus Geter about her memoir The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin (Random House) and the “practice of hope.”

LitHub rounds up the biggest literary stories of the year. 

NYT highlights new titles about the late Stephen Sondheim. 

BBC makes a case: “why Don DeLillo is America’s greatest living writer.”

The New Yorker reflects on a bleak year for literary magazines. 

Wired highlights 17 tech books to give and receive. 

Shondaland recommends books about the natural world.

Vogue highlights 25 books to give as gifts. 

Authors on Air

NPR’s Fresh Air talks with Kevin Hazzard, American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America’s First Paramedics (Hachette), about the Black neighborhood association that trained some of the nation’s first paramedics.

Hulu’s six-part limited docu-series The 1619 Project, adapted from essays in The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, ed. by Nikole Hannah-Jones with the New York Times Magazine (One World; LJ starred review), will premiere January 26. Shadow&Act reports.  

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will present a new Netflix series called Live To Lead, directed by the co-creator of the “I Know This To Be True” book series. GMA has details. 

The Deep by Nick Cutter (Gallery) will be adapted as a series.  Deadline reports. 

Deadline shares the screenplay for White Noise, based on the novel by Don DeLillo, as part of a new series.

BookRiot previews YA page to screen adaptations for 2023. 

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